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(N Model.) i I A. E. BELLER. GMSTALIZING FRAME. No. 400,539. PatentedApr. 2, 1889-.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. I

ALBERT E. BELLER, OF OGDEN CITY, UTAII-TERRITORY.

CRYSTALLIZ'ING-FRAIVI E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 400,539, dated April 2,1889. Application filed vlrpri 14, 1888. Serial No. 270,612. (No model.)

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT E. BELLER, of Ogden City, in the county ofWeber and Territoryof Utah, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Crystallizing-Fralnes, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description.

This invention has for its object the production `ofuframes formonograms, inottoes, and various designs, including signs, which havetheir surfaces incased by crystals to give a bold, ornamental, andeiective appearance; andthe invention consists in a special constructionof said frames, and of preparing them for retention ofthe crystals, andin the article produced, substantially as herein described, and pointedout in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both the igures.

Figure l represents a face View of a crystallizing-frame embodying myinvention in the course of construction or before applying thelcrystals, and Fig. A2 is a similar view of said frame after the crystalshave been applied.

The frame, which may be of any suitable shape, size, and design,according to the monogram, motto, or other characters it is intended todisplay, is an open or skeleton one and formed ofpwire, wood, or othersuitable strips,

b, arranged to inclose or support and form the figures or characters ofthe design, which is `here represented by the letters B -R B, said wiresor strips conformingin arrangement and numbers to the design required tobe produced. These several Wires or strips, or, rather, such portions ofthem as are intended to be incased by crystals c-includin g, forinstance,

the outer marginal portions of the frame and the letters or charactersformed therein-are then covered or have wrapped around them any suitablesoft and iieXible or fibrous material, (l, which will serve the purposeof causing the crystals to adhere thereto. The Whole frame thus suitablycovered where the crystals are designed to form and adhere is thensteeped in any suitable crystallizing solution, such as a solution ofsalt, alum, or other cr-ystalliz'ing material, and allowed to remaintherein till a sufficient deposit of crystals has been lmade upon thecovered portions of the skeleton frame, the uncovered portions of whichare left bare by reason of the non-ai'- ilnity otA the crystals to formon or adhere thereto.

Having thus fully described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to vsecure by Letters Patentl. A crystallizedmonogram or other like frame consisting of an open frameprovided withthe strips b, arranged within the frame to support and form thecharacters of the design, and crystals applied to the frame and to thedesign thereof, substantially as described.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, aV crystal-incased monogram orother like frame consisting of an open frame provided with strips b,arranged to support and form the characters of the design, a ibrouscovering for the portions of the frame intended to be incased withcrystals, and the crystals applied to the said covered portions, as setforth.

ALBERT E. BELLER.

